Gitolite: Does Not Appear to be a Git Repository

Have a user, whose public key was successfully added under “gitolite-admin/keydir” and whose rights were successfully configured under “gitolite-admin/conf/gitolite.conf”.

When this very user is cloning an existing, correctly configured repository, his/her identity ( public key ) is not being passed correclty => hence notice a password prompt:

$ git clonegit@yourgitserver.com:your-project
Cloning into your-project...
git@yourgitserver.com's password:
fatal: 'your=project' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

$ git clone git@yourgitserver.com:your-project
Cloning into your-project...
git@yourgitserver.com's password:
fatal: 'your=project' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Here is the way to help out git / gitolite to understand which identity ( key ) to use: